County Attorney Mike O'Connell, left

Liberal media

To the liberal media and C-J: Will you please stop printing stories on homosexuals and gay marriage? Both are sins and against God and the Bible. Marriage is defined as being between one man and one woman, period. Married couples who can produce offspring and raise a family in a loving relationship.

And if the left-wing, liberal Democrat media would spend as much time reporting on all of the lies and corruption of the Obama administration, Benghazi, Obamacare, NSA, etc. as they do covering Chris Christie and all the other Republican politicians, they would find the truth and report it correctly to the American people. Enough already.

JOHN LONG Jr.

Mount Washington, Ky. 40047

He'll take Mike

Editorial cartoonist Marc Murphy and The C-J portray Mike O'Connell as a judicial bully. What citizen would not want a vigorous advocate for the victims of drunk driving? Should a prosecutor really lay down and not challenge questionable rulings by judges? No thanks, I don't want a wimp prosecutor. I'll take Mike.

CHUCK COOPER

Louisville 40299

Segregation questions

Mark Twain's famous phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" has a useful ring when describing the pronouncements of advocacy groups of all persuasions.

In proclaiming "extreme segregation" for 45 percent of city residents, the Anne Braden Institute has trampled what any reasonable evaluation might include for this community. Given that there is still substantial useful housing stock in the city's center for lower income citizens and that the forced busing strategy of the 1970s guaranteed that thousands of Louisville parents would move just far enough away to exempt their children, it is astonishing that the liberal mindset is surprised to discover what their social scheming accomplished in promoting white flight. Not only that, achievement measurements now indicate that all we really did in the process was change the color of the faces in lower performing schools.

No one can dispute that the Jim Crow era left an unfortunate legacy in Louisville but any academic that can't see the integration that occurred in this community over the last half century has little chance of knowing where we're at now. And don't forget, if development can actually solve this dilemma ultimately it will likely include some gentrification with all of its disruptive connotations.

Perhaps when the entire report is released it will be possible to make some sense of their "statistics" but right now it looks like Mark Twain nailed it.

GARY OWEN

Louisville 40223

Happy couples

A U.S. District judge ruled that the state of Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages granted in other states. I got up this morning and the world was still revolving, the sun was shining and people were going about their business as usual. Nothing catastrophic happened because this judge ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. The only outcome I see are some very happy couples who can now, in the state of Kentucky, say that they are married and that marriage is recognized. Congratulations!